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Bastard Tongues: A Trail-Blazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages
Bastard Tongues A TrailBlazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages
Author: Derek Bickerton
Why Do Isolated Creole Languages Tend to Have Similar Grammatical Structures? Bastard Tongues is an exciting, firsthand story of scientific discovery in an area of research close to the heart of what it means to be human—what language is, how it works, and how it passes from generation to generation, even where his...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780809028177
ISBN-10: 0809028174
Publication Date: 3/4/2008
Pages: 288
Edition: First Edition
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Publisher: Hill and Wang
Book Type: Hardcover
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